--- title: 'Senior HR Business Partner (Contract to Hire) at Exowatt' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-hr-business-partner-contract-to-hire-exowatt-austin-44kpqe5w9xbs' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-14' --- # Senior HR Business Partner (Contract to Hire) at Exowatt - **Company:** Exowatt - **Location:** Austin, TX - **Employment:** contract - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/exowatt/f8c6baf4-a9ba-4392-bbe8-2a45e11335df ## Job description Exowatt is revolutionizing the energy landscape for the AI era with our groundbreaking P3 system that captures solar energy, stores it as heat, and generates electricity on demand. Founded in 2023 and backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Felicis, we're committed to providing clean, modular, and scalable power that meets the rapidly growing demands of AI infrastructure. Our mission is to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free, enabling technological advancement while protecting our planet. Our flagship product, the Exowatt P3, captures solar energy as heat, stores it in a long-duration thermal battery, and converts it to electricity whenever it's needed - no fossil backup required. We're building the energy infrastructure that lets AI, and the industries built on it, keep scaling sustainably. As a Senior HR Business Partner (Contract to Hire) at Exowatt, you will serve as a strategic partner to leaders across our engineering and operations teams. This is a 6-month contract role to start, based in Austin and reporting to the Head of People & Talent. You'll help shape and execute people strategies that enable scale, strengthen leadership, and drive high performance as we grow from breakthrough technology into full-scale manufacturing and deployment. Partnering closely with managers and senior leaders, you'll provide counsel on organizational design, performance management, talent planning, and employee relations while balancing near-term priorities with long-term organizational health and cultural integrity. You'll use data-driven insights and sound judgment to identify trends, influence decisions, and drive high-impact initiatives that elevate the employee experience and strengthen manager capability. This role is based in Austin, TX and only local candidates are being considered. ## What You'll Do Strategic Business Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to leaders and managers. Anticipate organizational needs, connect people strategy to business outcomes, and challenge assumptions through evidence and insight. Performance Management & Talent Strategy: Run end-to-end performance review and talent review cycles with rigor and fairness; goal setting, calibration, ratings, and merit/equity refresh planning. Coach managers to recognize and reward top performance, address underperformance, and build high-performing, inclusive teams, ensuring outcomes are well-documented and clearly tied to compensation decisions. Organizational Design & Effectiveness: Partner with leaders to design scalable org structures, strengthen alignment, and enable growth. Use workforce analytics and org design principles to optimize spans, layers, and team health. Coaching & Influence: Build trusted relationships with managers and leaders, providing candid, actionable feedback that sharpens leadership effectiveness. Reinforce Exowatt's cultural principles and managerial excellence through coaching and systems. Compensation & Total Rewards: Partner with the Head of People & Talent on compensation strategy and execution; benchmarking roles against market data, maintaining salary bands, and guiding managers through offer, promotion, and adjustment decisions with consistency and equity. Help employees and managers understand the full value of their rewards; base, equity, and benefits; through clear communication and education that builds trust and transparency. Analytical & Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverage people data to identify trends, diagnose root causes, and drive measurable improvements in organizational health. Project Management & Operational Excellence: Drive cross-functional people initiatives end-to-end; from scoping and planning to execution and follow-through. Balance strategic impact with hands-on execution to ensure scalability and continuous improvement. Cultural Stewardship & Employee Experience: Model and amplify Exowatt's values and performance standards. Ensure fairness, inclusion, and consistency in decision-making. Surface patterns in sentiment and proactively strengthen engagement and trust. You'd Be a Great Fit If You - Have 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including 3+ years as an HR Business Partner supporting senior leaders in high-growth or scaling environments; ideally including hardware, energy, manufacturing, or deep-tech companies. - Are a strategic operator who can anticipate organizational needs, translate business priorities into people strategies, and influence through credibility and insight. - Are data-driven, using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decision-making, program design, and measurement of impact. - Are a trusted coach and advisor, capable of balancing candor and empathy while influencing at all levels. - Have strong working knowledge of org design, performance management, employee relations, and leadership development. - Can ramp quickly and deliver impact within a defined engagement; comfortable operating with autonomy from day one. - Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth settings where agility, sound judgment, and ownership are essential. - Model Exowatt's cultural principles and uphold our high-performance standard, driving clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement. - Can travel to our Miami headquarters to collaborate with other leaders and build relationships with the team ## About Exowatt ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Exowatt designs and manufactures modular, full-stack solar energy systems that capture solar energy, store it as heat, and dispatch electricity on demand to power energy-intensive infrastructure like AI data centers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Miami, FL, USA - **Founded**: 2023 (implied by company narrative) - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed on the website or job postings ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy, Clean Technology, Energy Storage, AI Infrastructure. - **Target customers**: B2B — specifically AI data centers, high-performance computing (HPC) data centers, and utility-scale energy projects. They also target utility companies and industrial sites with high energy demands. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Our mission is to deliver ultra-low-cost, reliable power that fuels global AI infrastructure while protecting our planet" — as stated by the founders on their vision page. ## Products & Services - **Exowatt P3**: The flagship product, a "dispatchable solar" system. It is a modular, full-stack energy system that captures solar energy using custom optical lenses (Fresnel lenses), stores it as heat in a proprietary high-temperature sensible heat battery (long-duration energy storage), and converts it into electricity on demand via a proprietary heat engine. It is designed to provide up to 24 hours of dispatchable energy, essentially serving as a baseload power source. The system can be deployed behind the meter (BTM) to reduce interconnection wait times, and is built in the USA without rare earth minerals. - **Energy Optimization Software**: Integrated software platform for real-time monitoring, control, and automation of Exowatt P3 systems. Enables intelligent dispatch, integration with other energy assets (solar PV, wind, natural gas, grid), and participation in arbitrage and virtual power plants (VPPs). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $70 million Series A round announced on April 22, 2025 [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/faq). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named on the website (the funding announcement and Crunchbase profile are referenced but not detailed on the main site). The company claims a "Made in the USA" supply chain and mentions partnerships with utility companies and data center operators. - **Growth Signals**: - Raised a significant $70M Series A in early 2025, signaling strong investor confidence. - Actively hiring across multiple key engineering and leadership roles (Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Power Electronics) in two locations (Miami, FL and Austin, TX). - Targeting the rapidly expanding AI and HPC data center market, which has an enormous and growing demand for clean, dispatchable power. - Their product’s "Bring Your Own Power" (BYOP) capability directly addresses the critical bottleneck of long interconnection queues for new data centers, a major market pain point. ## Competitive Advantages - **Dispatchable Solar + Storage**: Unlike standard solar PV, Exowatt's system can provide 24/7 baseload power by storing solar energy as heat and generating electricity on demand, solving the intermittency problem of renewables. - **Expedited Time-to-Power**: The ability to deploy fully behind the meter allows customers to bypass lengthy utility interconnection queues, accelerating project timelines for energy-intensive facilities like data centers. - **No Rare Earth Minerals**: The system is built with abundant, domestically sourced materials, avoiding supply chain vulnerabilities and environmental concerns associated with rare earth mining. - **Modular & Scalable**: Factory-built modules allow for linear scaling, enabling customers to start small and expand capacity as their energy needs grow. - **30-Year Lifespan**: Designed for low maintenance and a 30-year operational life, providing long-term reliability. ## Strategic Focus - **Targeting the AI Energy Boom**: Exowatt is squarely focused on providing clean, reliable, and rapidly deployable power to solve the massive energy demands of AI and HPC data centers. - **U.S. Manufacturing & Energy Independence**: The company is prioritizing domestic manufacturing to ensure quality, supply chain security, and alignment with national energy independence goals. - **Scaling Rapidly to Meet Demand**: With a $70M Series A, the focus is likely on scaling manufacturing, building out their deployment pipeline with initial customers, and expanding the engineering team to accelerate product development and deployment. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Mission**: The opportunity to work on a critical technology that directly enables the AI revolution by solving its most fundamental constraint: sustainable, scalable power. - **High-Performance Team**: The company describes itself as a "high-performance team of engineers, scientists, and builders pushing the boundaries of what’s possible," indicating a fast-paced, ambitious environment. - **On-Site Engineering Roles**: The posted positions (Electrical Engineer, Lead Mechanical Engineer, Lead Controls & Firmware Engineer) are full-time and on-site in either **Miami, FL** or **Austin, TX**. No remote or hybrid options are visible in current job listings. - **Competitive Benefits**: Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, flexible PTO, and team-wide equity [exowatt.com/careers](https://www.exowatt.com/careers). - **Small, Fast-Moving Company**: With a Series A funding, this is an early-stage company, offering roles with high ownership, influence, and the chance to build foundational systems. ## Sources 1. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/?gad_campaignid=21982037242) 2. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/faq) 3. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/vision) 4. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/careers) 5. 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